The Secretariat maintains the Register of the Nation as the permanent official record of its offices, instruments, certifications, and public acts.
The Mohawk Nation of Grand River is a distinct and continuing nation, possessed of its own governing authority, territory, and institutions of record. The Grand River Territory is understood by the Nation as acquired territory: land set apart and confirmed for the Nation and its posterity, over which the Nation maintains that its authority has never been extinguished, surrendered, or lawfully displaced. The Nation’s position is that this territory is not merely historical or symbolic, but a living territorial jurisdiction carrying present rights, obligations, and administrative consequences.
This position is grounded not only in the continuity of the Mohawk people, the covenant relationship with the Crown, and the instruments by which the Grand River Territory was set apart, but also in the broader principle that Indigenous peoples hold rights in lands they have traditionally owned, occupied, used, or acquired. The Nation therefore maintains that the Grand River Territory must be understood as territory with continuing legal and political significance, and not simply as land absorbed into the ordinary assumptions of settler administration.
Today, the Mohawk Nation of Grand River gives formal institutional expression to that continuity through its Secretariat, its Register of the Nation, and its related offices of record, law, land, trust, and administration. In this way, the Nation maintains an ordered public record of its instruments, notices, certifications, and official acts.